Calgon, Take Me Away!
Life is way too busy right now.
You see, deep down, I'm a slug. (Okay, fine -- I'm a slug all the way through.) The point is I like life to move at an easy pace -- get up, make the bed, plan supper and spend the rest of the day doing whatever comes along. Some people like to cram as much as they can into a day, but that is so NOT me. Read a little, write a little, go to the gym every other day, watch some TV in the evening. That works for me. I am the sort of person who puts Eat Breakfast on my To Do list, and when there are more than two items to attend to on any given day, I get tense.
At the moment my list is so long, I've had to flip the paper over. My circuits are overloaded and I expect to short out at any second. The thing is I created this problem myself -- well, most of it. Throwing Christmas into the mix wasn't my idea, but I'm pretty much responsible for everything else that's piling up.
Things to Do:
1. Send full manuscript to publisher. (Easier said than done. Between the time I submitted the partial and the time the publisher asked for the full, I tore the last third of the story apart and now have to reassemble it into a new improved version.)
2. Do final revisions for Zach & Zoe -- Book II. (Gladly, if the editor would tell me what to revise.)
3. Write the story that goes with the outline the publisher likes. (I actually went out of my way to dream up this story because I like working with this particular publisher.)
4. Do an outline for Zach & Zoe -- Book III. (All I asked was if there was going to be a third book in the series.)
5. Prepare for the Friends of the Library Book Sale. First there was the bake sale; now this. (I volunteered to be on this committee why?)
6. Get ready for our little snowbird adventure. (That's a huge list all by itself!)
7. Plan and organize a spring book tour. (This is a toughy, because I have to rely on other people and it's down the road, and I'm not good at this sort of thing.)
8. Prepare my presentation for the Round table. (How does one entertain and impress a room full of teachers and librarians?)
9. Find a local school willing to be the venue for my Off-the-Page presentation.
10. Make Christmas! (Gift shop, grocery shop, clean the house, decorate, put up the tree, bake, write cards, send packages, entertain ...)
And those are just the first 10 items on my list. Agghh!!! Calgon, take me away!